Android Developer

The Role:

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (iOS) to join our Core Payments team at Razorpay. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and scaling our iOS SDK, the critical integration point used by thousands of merchants to process payments across multiple geographies.

You will work closely with product and backend engineering teams to design high-performance features, ensuring the SDK remains secure, lightweight, and developer-friendly. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges involved in building financial infrastructure that operates at massive scale.

Responsibilities:

• SDK Development: Contribute to the development of our native iOS SDK, ensuring high availability and seamless payment experiences for a diverse merchant base.
• Engineering Excellence: Write clean, maintainable, and modular code. Architect solutions that are resilient across different host app environments.
• Automation: Design and implement robust automation for tests, builds, and performance profiling. If a task is repetitive, you are expected to automate it.
• Instrumentation: Build deep telemetry within the SDK to provide real-time insights into success rates and latency, enabling data-driven product decisions.
• Security: Implement industry-standard security protocols, including SSL pinning and runtime integrity checks, to protect sensitive transaction data.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in native iOS development using Swift.
• Systems Design: Solid understanding of OOPS principles and architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, or Clean Architecture).
• Cross-Platform Knowledge: Practical experience with bridge-based frameworks such as Flutter, React Native, or Cordova.
• Technical Depth: Strong proficiency in GCD, Swift Concurrency, and UIKit/SwiftUI lifecycles.
• Debugging: Proficiency in using Xcode Instruments for memory management, CPU profiling, and network debugging.

Good to Have:

• Android Stack Experience: Familiarity with Kotlin or Java is highly preferred to help maintain feature parity and align API design across platforms.
• Deployment & Tooling: Knowledge of CocoaPods, Swift Package Manager (SPM), or Fastlane for automated distribution.
• Open Source: Active contributions to GitHub or a portfolio of apps published on the App Store.

About the Role

• We’re hiring a Principal Android Engineer to be the mini-CTO for Android at Zobaze POS. You’ll own the architecture, shared business logic, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) layer, and technical health of a mobile-first POS app used by hundreds of thousands of merchants globally.
• You’ll work with the founder for business direction—but system design, trade-offs, and technical decisions are yours. Your job: keep us fast and sane while protecting the platform from shortcuts and leading high-impact refactors.
• Zobaze POS is business-critical software used daily by retailers and food outlets for billing, inventory, staff management, and reporting—optimized for low-end devices, flaky networks, and real-world chaos.

What You’ll Own

• Android architecture end-to-end: Modules, patterns, KMP integration, state management, threading, error handling
• KMP strategy: Lead shared code architecture for cross-platform business logic; decide migration paths and avoid technical debt
• System design for harsh conditions: Offline-first, multi-device sync, graceful degradation under poor networks and low-spec hardware
• Full delivery lifecycle: Design → Build → Ship → Debug → Refactor key initiatives
• Refactors & modernization: Lead V1 → V2 rebuilds, module splits, and major migrations without breaking production
• Code detective & RCA owner: Drop into any codebase section, understand it fast, fix what’s broken, prevent recurrence
• Mentorship: Guide junior/mid-level developers and raise the team’s technical bar

Must-Have Skills

• 6–8 years Android dev (4+ years in fast-moving product companies, startups preferred)
• Strong in Kotlin, modern Android APIs, multi-module architectures
• 1–2 years Jetpack Compose in production (not toy projects)
• Large-scale refactor experience: V1 → V2, architecture rewrites, migrations—you handled risk and rollout
• Deep knowledge: MVVM, clean architecture, DI (Hilt/Dagger2), offline handling, sync strategies, coroutines, performance tuning
• Firebase comfort: Firestore, Functions, Auth, Messaging, Analytics, Crashlytics
• Elite debugging: Track down flaky production issues and design systemic fixes
• Code-reading detective: Navigate unfamiliar code and make safe, surgical changes
• Ownership mentality: High-expectation, low-handholding environment

Bonus Points

• POS/retail/operational systems experience
• Hands-on KMP in production (not toy projects)
• Hardware integrations (Bluetooth printers, scanners, cash drawers)
• Analytics tools (Amplitude, Intercom)
• Leading technical decisions in small, high-performance team

How You Use AI

• Proficient with Cursor, Copilot, Claude CLI, etc.
• Use AI as a high-context pair programmer for boilerplate, edge cases, refactor reasoning
• You don’t rely on AI to think for you—architectural understanding and judgment are yours
• Over-reliance without deep understanding is a red flag

Why Join

• Zero red tape: Build, ship, iterate—no committees
• Real impact: Your decisions affect thousands of small businesses daily
• Founder proximity: Influence product direction, protect the platform long-term
• AI-native team: Tooling and workflows that amplify great engineers
• High bar, supportive culture: Compete against mediocre software, not each other

Compensation

• Competitive salary based on capability and leverage created
• ESOPs for long-term owners
• Learning budgets, hardware, AI tooling access
• Health insurance for you & family
• Office perks (lunch, Zobaze Mix, fitness, etc.)

You’re a Fit If

• You see yourself as a mini-CTO for Android, not “just” an app developer
• You’ve built and broken real systems, then fixed them properly
• You want autonomy with accountability
• You care equally about quality, speed, and customer outcomes
• You’re excited about KMP and architecture
• You’re based in Hyderabad (or ready to relocate)

What does the core role include?

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Designing stateless components in React Native
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Working with the developers to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps
• Working with the developers to build the interface with a focus on usability features
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What else can you expect in the role?

• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Optimizing performance for the apps
• Problem-solving skills, analytical mind, and positive attitude
• Ability to think from end users perspective and focused on improving the overall product experience.
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
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What can fetch you brownie points?

• Hands on experience with React Native is required
• Hands-on experience in React Native APIs, ReactJS, Javascript, ECMAScript (OOJS) and JSX.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript ecosystem
• Hands on experience on Android in creating Hybrid / Native applications
• Demonstrable UI/UX experience on a large-scale app.
• Thorough understanding of React Native development tools like IDEs (Nuclide, Atom, Sublime Text, or Visual
• Good knowledge of JS frameworks like ReactJS is a plus.

Desired Skills and Experience

Hybrid Apps,React Native, Native iOS and Android Architecture understanding

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
• Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
• Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
• Publish apps to the corresponding App store/Play store
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
• Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
• Research on emerging technologies and trends
• Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures

Qualifications

• 2 years of hands-on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
• Must have developed a Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands-on Working experience with React Native is a must.
• Experience developing backend services preferably with NodeJS.
• Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
• Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Strong skills in RESTful web services
• Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful

Key Skills

• Must have experience building apps using fluter, good knowledge on dart. Preferably built and deployed couple of apps both on iOS and Android
• Good knowledge in integrating or developing app functions using firebase
• Must have ported at least 2 applications on iOS and Android platforms. Exposure to the entire build piepline is a must.
• Has good knowledge on how native android and iOS apps work. Must have experience building iOS native apps
• Has an understanding on Computer vision and basic deep learning concepts. Any prototypes of proof of concepts are a big plus.

What they need to do?

• Code - write or learn to write clean code, understand design patterns and develop a quick turnaround time to ship updates
• UI/UX - understand design guidlines and implement them in the project
• Communication - communicate project goals clearly to the team. Understand and convert project requirements in to actionable steps
• Documentation - maintain documentation to support product development

• HomeGround is an AI platform that helps aspiring cricketers and coaches level up thier training. We help our users get an equal opportunity to play, train for and achieve their goal by providing professional level training analytics right on the smartphone, no special equipment or sensors required.
• HomeGround is one of the Top 10 early stage sports tech startup selected by Startupbootcamp Australia

• Our team shares experience in product growth, marketing and deep learning. We are passionate about our work and are committed 100% to our startup.

• Own Android SDKs, working hand-in-hand with the founding team
• Design and build delightful user interfaces for native apps on Android
• You will be (co-) responsible for our software development kit (SDK) for Android
• Building mobile apps in both Swift and Kotlin.
• You work independently on your own code, but you also spend time collaborating with others.
• You are involved in all stages of app development and contribute to the roadmap.
• You get the freedom to experiment with new Android technology.
• Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that need to be launched ground up.

• Min 2 to 4 years in developing Android applications in Java / Kotlin / C++ /
• Gradle/Groovy.
• Worked on SDKs/Frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns as well as Android specifics.
• Experience with authenticated sessions using authentication tokens and have at-least
• fundamental knowledge of app security.
• Good to have:-
• Experience with Cross-platform frameworks is a plus (React Native, Flutter, Cordova,
• Xamarin).
• Have implemented security standards and guides.
• Experience building applications at scale.
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs like Mobile Vision, MLKit and/or
• Camera API.
• Good understanding of garbage collection, design patterns and continuously
• discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development
• efficiency.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general
• reliability

We're looking for a Sr. Android Developer to work on improving the performance and UX for our Android app and build kick ass new features. 

If you love building slick Android apps and pushing the limit on interactions, animations and usability, then this one's for you.

Required Skills:

Worked in app teams with multiple contributors/ team members

Demonstrated understanding of app architecture + best practices

Detail oriented with a focus on app performance and stability

Expertise in UI implementation - interactions, animations and design. We do not always follow material design, so should be comfortable with building custom UI elements

Understanding of how to build online->offline apps using local databases and file storage, and syncing with remote resources

Experience implementing any of the following is a bonus: branch.io , Google Analytics, Flurry, Urban Airship

Understanding of utilizing phone camera and in-app image manipulation is a bonus

Self motivated (we don't micromanage)

Product and design oriented thinking

We're looking for a Sr. Android Developer to work on improving the performance and UX for our Android app and build kick ass new features. 4+ years of experience in Android development is a must, with the ability guide app architecture and development to create high performing apps with stellar UX.

If you love building slick Android apps and pushing the limit on interactions, animations and usability, then this one's for you.

Required Skills:

Worked in app teams with multiple contributors/ team members

Demonstrated understanding of app architecture + best practices

Detail oriented with a focus on app performance and stability

Expertise in UI implementation - interactions, animations and design. We do not always follow material design, so should be comfortable with building custom UI elements

Understanding of how to build online->offline apps using local databases and file storage, and syncing with remote resources

Experience implementing any of the following is a bonus: branch.io , Google Analytics, Flurry, Urban Airship

Understanding of utilizing phone camera and in-app image manipulation is a bonus

Self motivated (we don't micromanage)

Product and design oriented thinking